Bee Venom Therapy Recommended for Back Pain, MS

No Pain, No Gain, Beekeepers Say
Herald-Dispatch (USA), 8/14/2006

Gabe Blatt, president of the Cabell Wayne Beekeepers Association, contends that the stings of worker honeybees can reduce inflammation in joints, so you can resume all those pleasurable calisthenics.

"A beekeeper takes a spring-loaded reverse tweezer, picks up a bee and puts it on your body where you want to be stung," Blatt says. "He presses down and the bee will sting you."

The process is called "apitherapy," and Blatt says the results are pretty amazing. He knows a male nurse who hurt his back moving a patient. The man couldn't do a thing after his shift ended except sit at home; now, after being treated with bee stings, he plays with his children and his pain has greatly diminished.

Pat Wagner of Waldorf, Md., describes the procedure in her book, "How Well Are You Willing to Bee?" A victim of MS, she was in a wheelchair and legally blind. Now that's she's had treatments, she drives and lives an active life…

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